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MONARCH BUTTERFLIES

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  DMonarchs are easily recognizable with two pair of brilliant orange-reddish wings decorated with black veins and white spots.
The Monarch butterfly
is known by scientists
as Danaus plexippus,
which in Greek
literally means
"sleepy
transformation."

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Danainae
Genus: Danaus
Species: D. plexippus
Binomial name
Danaus plexippus